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0wning Vista from the boot
Federico Biancuzzi, 2007-04-24

Federico Biancuzzi interviews Nitin and Vipin Kumar, authors of VBootkit, a rootkit that is able to load from Windows Vista boot-sectors. They discuss the "features" of their code, the support of the various versions of Vista, the possibility to place it inside the BIOS (it needs around 1500 bytes), and the chance to use it to bypass Vista's product activation or avoid DRM.

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0wning Vista from the boot 2007-05-06
Anonymous
Academically interesting but not much of a real threat. Nothing new here. If you own a box physically you own it unless you are running Bitlocker (TPM). This is backed up by statements from the hackers. "It doesn't need any privileges only physical access to the machine." And "The only protection ...

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